Page 94 of Midnight Surrender to the Spaniard

‘Hold on...’ He closed his eyes. ‘You didn’t just fly in for the day?’

‘No.’

‘What about Willow?’

‘She’s in Marbella.’

‘What?’ His voice was like the crack of a whip.

‘Sebastián...’ Anna kept her voice steady. ‘It’s fine. She’s with Emily and a nanny.’

‘No. No...’ His eyes were like black saucers. ‘Anna...?’

He knew how impossible it must have been for her to make this happen.

Knew that she’d blown up her life to be here for him.

He was thinking of her daughter, here in another country, perhaps upset and confused.

And he was trying to tell himself that funerals were not the best place to make decisions.

Nor for knee-jerk reactions.

‘You need to go to her,’ he said.

‘Sebastián, I wouldn’t have left her if I didn’t know she was happy and safe.’

‘No.’ He shook his head. ‘You need to go and be with your daughter.’

‘We’ve just—’

She bit her lip so hard he thought she might have drawn blood. They had just had sex—the most intimate of sex—and he was telling her to get the hell out.

‘Anna...’ He was adamant. ‘You need to go back to Willow.’

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

THEPERILSOFSPAIN, Anna thought as sat on a sunbed in her bikini, watching Dali and Willow playing in the sea. She must stop having passionate sex the moment she had someone to look after Willow!

Dali had insisted on staying for the full twenty-four hours that Anna had paid her for. And it was perhaps just as well, because she felt dreadfully unravelled.

Sebastián did that to her, though.

Her emergency fund was practically gone, and she was undoubtedly in trouble with her parents. And Emily would be giving herI told you soeyes the next time she visited because, despite her brave words, Anna knew she was going to howl to her friend when she saw him with some gorgeous supermodel.

Yet even if she could go back she wouldn’t change a thing.

Or would she...?

Should she have not gone yesterday?

She didn’t regret it.

It was more that now she had to mourn the end of what they’d had...

‘There you are.

She heard his voice and was startled, hoping he couldn’t read her thoughts. She looked up and tried not to burn in a blush.

---